They make solitude, which they call peace.
TACITUSIt is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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