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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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You were indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the distinction of your life, but also in the lucky timing of your death.
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Think, therefore, as you advance to battle, at once of your ancestors and your posterity.
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Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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Under Domitian not the smallest part of one's misery was to see and be seen.
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Great eloquence, like fire, grows with its material; it becomes fiercer with movement, and brighter as it burns.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions.
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He [Nerva] has united things long incompatible, the principate and liberty.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Born:
58
Died:
120
(aged 62)
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.
Known for:
Annals (117 AD)
Histories
Germania
Agricola
Dialogus de oratoribus
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