Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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