Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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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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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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