This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
TACITUSAdversity deprives us of our judgment.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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