We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
TACITUSPosterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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