The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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