It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.
TacitusThe more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TacitusTags: law corruption government commonwealth
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TacitusTo show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
TacitusThey 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.
TacitusViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TacitusTags: beautiful
Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?
TacitusMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
TacitusCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TacitusTags: politics
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TacitusTags: freedom-of-speech free-thought
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