Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
TACITUSModest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
More Tacitus Quotes
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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