Benefits 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.
TACITUSThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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 inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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