Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
TACITUSIt is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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