It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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