The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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