All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
TACITUSPosterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In valor there is hope.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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