Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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