War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSIt is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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