Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSCrime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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In valor there is hope.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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