When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUSPosterity will pay everyone their due.
More Tacitus Quotes
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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