When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUSA desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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