Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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