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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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