Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUSNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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