People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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