The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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