“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”
Tacitus
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
Tacitus, Annals
“So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.”
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
“Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered.”
Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania
“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
Juvenal, The Satires
“No man becomes bad all at once.”
Juvenal
Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers.”
Juvenal
