It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUSNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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