If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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