More From Tacitus
- "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
- "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."
- "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
More In Nature
- "I have a bit of a rebellious nature."― John Cusack
- "Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."― Jean Paul
- "Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."― Samuel Johnson