Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSWe are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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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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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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