No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TACITUSGreater things are believed of those who are absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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