Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TACITUSEloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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