A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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