Every man Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every man Giving History Men Posterity True value Values
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic -… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
