Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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