In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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