I am my nearest neighbour.
TACITUSThe desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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