Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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