More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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