"Cornelius Tacitus is very good at teaching subjects how to live and act prudently, just as he teaches tyrants how to establish tyranny."
— Tacitus

January 1, 1970

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Francesco Guicciardini, Ricordi, in Opere di Francesco Guicciardini, ed. Emanuella Lugani Scarano (1970), vol. I, p. 732, quoted in Peter Burke, 'Tacitism', in T. A. Dorey (ed.), Tacitus (1969), p. 153