Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSBottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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