[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSReason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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