Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
TACITUSVictor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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