The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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 terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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