We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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