When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUSDeos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
More Tacitus Quotes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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