Tacitus Quotes

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• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

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  Peace, Freedom, War

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

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• If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

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  May, Paranoia, Knows

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• Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

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  Gratitude, Revenge, Men

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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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  Ambition, Land, Greed

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• Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

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  Gun, Law, Suffering

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• The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

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  Passion, Heart, Lust

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• The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

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  Hate, Compassion, Persistence

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• We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
  [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

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  Force, Accomplish, Prudence

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• The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

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  Peace, War, Crime

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• Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

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  Political

  Cornelius Tacitus, Tacitus, Francis Richard David Goodyear, A. J. Woodman, R. H. Martin (2004). “The Annals of Tacitus:”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

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  Haste, Delay, Truth Is

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• Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

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  Character, Law, History

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• Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

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  Political, Audacity, Politics

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• The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

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  Race, Enemy, Flatterer

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• The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

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• When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

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  Law, Liberty, States

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• Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

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  Thinking, Opinion, Judged

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• One who is allowed to sin, sins less

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  Sin

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• The most seditious is the most cowardly.

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  Revolution, Cowardly

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 34, AD 117.

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• Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

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  Military, Leader, Quality

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

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  Hate, Anger, Politics

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus. Chapter 42. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

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  Fear, Truth, Sincerity

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• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

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  Men, Desire, Oppression

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• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

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  Secret, Charm, Forbidden

  "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

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