When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUSWhen men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUSMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUSHe (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.
TACITUSThose in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSForethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUSThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUSGreat empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSThings forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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