Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSIn valor there is hope.
More Tacitus Quotes
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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