The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TACITUSThose in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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