The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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