The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSThe most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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[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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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