Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSNothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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