Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUSReason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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