It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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