Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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