Rumor is not always wrong
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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