None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In valor there is hope.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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