What did Tacitus mean by: Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] - Tacitus Historian · Italy Copy
+ People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Depends, Flattery, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Law, Liberty, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Government, Law, Numbers, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Shameful, War, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Freedom, Wish, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Accomplish, Force, Prudence, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Leader, Military, Quality, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
+ In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.] Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Tacitus, Law, 0 - Tacitus Historian · Italy
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
It’s easier to fight one’s enemies than to get on with one’s friends. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
