The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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