Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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