Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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