Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tacitus
Annalist
Biographer
Historian
Jurist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Gallia Bracata
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
P. Cornelius Tacitus
C. Cornelius Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus
Belongs
Anger
Politics
Hate
Nature
Human
Humans
Injured
Despise
More quotes by Tacitus
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Tacitus
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
Tacitus
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus
In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
Tacitus
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Tacitus
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
Tacitus
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Tacitus
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Tacitus
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Tacitus
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Tacitus
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.
Tacitus
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Tacitus
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Tacitus
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Tacitus
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
Tacitus
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
Tacitus
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.
Tacitus
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus
