People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSAn eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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