Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
TACITUSIt is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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