Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
TACITUSThat cannot be safe which is not honourable.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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In valor there is hope.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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