In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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