Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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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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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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