If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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