Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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In valor there is hope.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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