Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSEven honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
More Tacitus Quotes
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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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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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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