Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
More Tacitus Quotes
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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