Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSThe injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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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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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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