Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSIn valor there is hope.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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