It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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