Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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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.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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