Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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