To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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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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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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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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