Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSAn eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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 is not always wrong
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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