Quote

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Tacitus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Hate
Nature
Human
Humans
Injured
Disposition

More quotes by Tacitus

Image
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
Tacitus
Image
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
Image
Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
Tacitus
Image
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus
Image
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Tacitus
Image
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Tacitus
Image
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
Tacitus
Image
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Tacitus
Image
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.
Tacitus
Image
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
Tacitus
Image
Rumor is not always wrong
Tacitus
Image
The gods are on the side of the stronger.
Tacitus
Image
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
Tacitus
Image
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
Tacitus
Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
Image
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
Image
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
Tacitus
Image
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
Image
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus
Image
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Tacitus