Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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