In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TACITUSTraitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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