Best Quotes by Tacitus (Top 10)
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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A bad peace is worse than war.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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