Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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