Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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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.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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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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