Tacitus Quotes
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Histories. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Macmillan, 1873.
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
Later scholars have frequently used the “war of all against all” to describe international and free market economics, evolution, the UN and many other facets of society.
Alexander’s men won the battle, and the Greeks then ruled.
In a zero sum system whenever one party gains, the other must lose, and if one loses, the other has a corresponding gain. At other times, legislation was not a zero sum game. Many Congressmen believed that if good legislation would be passed, BOTH parties would benefit as would the country. If poor or no legislation were passed, that would be bad for all.
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics.
