Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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