Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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