Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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