In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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