Conspicuous by his absence.
TACITUSTo 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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