The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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