It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSBenefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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