Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
TACITUSSeek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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