To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TACITUSSeek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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