I am my nearest neighbour.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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