They terrify lest they should fear.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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