Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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