FastSaying
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]
Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Cowards
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]
— Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Idleness
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.]
— Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Absence
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
— Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Posterity
The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
— Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Revolution
The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
— Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Circumstance