More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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