It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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