Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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