When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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