Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
More Tacitus Quotes
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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