Tacitus quotes
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“The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.”
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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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“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.”
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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
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“The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.”
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“In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.”
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“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”
-- TacitusSource : "Agricola". Book by Tacitus. Chapter 42. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.
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“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader..”
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“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”
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“Things forbidden have a secret charm.”
-- TacitusSource : "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.
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“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”
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“This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.”
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“An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.”
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“Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.”
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“No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.”
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“We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.”
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“When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.”
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“There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.”
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“It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.”
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“Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.”
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“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
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“Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.”
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