Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSPosterity will pay everyone their due.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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