Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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