Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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