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.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
More Tacitus Quotes
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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