Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSA bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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