Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
More Tacitus Quotes
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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