If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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