Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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