Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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