Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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