It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUSLaws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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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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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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