No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
TACITUSThe love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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