In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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