Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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