Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
TACITUSValor is the contempt of death and pain.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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