More from Tacitus
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TacitusTacitus 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.
TacitusTacitus The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TacitusTacitus Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TacitusTacitus I am my nearest neighbour.
TacitusTacitus The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TacitusTacitus Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TacitusTacitus They make a desert and call it peace.
TacitusTacitus It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
TacitusTacitus An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TacitusTacitus It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
TacitusTacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TacitusTacitus Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TacitusTacitus A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
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A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.
Bill JohnsonBill Johnson I am grateful… grapefruit.
BjorkBjork Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It’s an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I’d be very happy.
Ben RoethlisbergerBen Roethlisberger Live with honor and follow your conscience.
Benigno Aquino, Jr.Benigno Aquino, Jr. Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.
Beth KephartBeth Kephart The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.
Bernard de MandevilleBernard de Mandeville Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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