Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TACITUSThe gods are on the side of the stronger.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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