Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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