Tacitus Hate Quotations

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

It is human to hate those whom we have injured.

The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

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