Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSSo as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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