They terrify lest they should fear.
TACITUS[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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