Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
TACITUSThe task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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In valor there is hope.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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 bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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