None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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