Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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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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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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