Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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