The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUS
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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