One who is allowed to sin, sins less
TACITUSMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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