Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSFormerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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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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