Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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