Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSPosterity will pay everyone their due.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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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