Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TACITUSWhen men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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