Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSRumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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In valor there is hope.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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