Tacitus Quotes

A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Where they make a desert they call it peace.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Where they make a desert they call it peace.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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The more corrupt the state the more laws.
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Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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A bad peace is worse than war.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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