Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUSPosterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSThe persecution of genius fosters its influence.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSIn private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
TACITUSGreater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUSI am my nearest neighbour.
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