Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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 a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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