Tacitus on corrupt
Tacitus187 quotes“No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TacitusTacitus They make a desert and call it peace.
TacitusTacitus It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
TacitusTacitus An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TacitusTacitus It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
TacitusTacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TacitusTacitus Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TacitusTacitus A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TacitusTacitus Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TacitusTacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TacitusTacitus It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
TacitusTacitus The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TacitusTacitus Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TacitusTacitus When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
TacitusTacitus The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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It is beneath pale blue skies, amongst sycamore trees, and afoot dirtied leaves, my heart, and soul finds peace.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford A wounded heart never stops bleeding.
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Ana DeeAna Dee The worst thing is not to share our pain with each other when you can.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Love was created for so many reasons and you will always be one of them.
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana Tired of being tired burnt out from putting our fires.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord ActonLord Acton How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan RudolphAlan Rudolph Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne