Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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