It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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