Every man Quote by Tacitus

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris…

— Sallust

Posterity gives every man his true value.

— Tacitus

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account.…

— Herodotus

By giving man a free will he allows man that highest satisfaction and privilege of co-operating to his own felicity.

— Robert Boyle

“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with…

— Paul Hoffman

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

“When a woman allows a man to enter her, it is not just a physical act, but a spiritual one,...We risk everything trying to…

— Terry Tempest Williams When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would…

— Tacitus

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

— Tacitus

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…

— Tacitus

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

— Tacitus

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors…

— Tacitus