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.
TACITUSAll 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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 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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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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