The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Tacitus187 quotes“The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.”
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
TacitusTacitus The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TacitusTacitus Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TacitusTacitus I am my nearest neighbour.
TacitusTacitus The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TacitusTacitus Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
TacitusTacitus The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TacitusTacitus They make a desert and call it peace.
TacitusTacitus It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
TacitusTacitus An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TacitusTacitus It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
TacitusTacitus No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TacitusTacitus Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
TacitusTacitus A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TacitusTacitus Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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