Tacitus Quotes

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Fame Learn Love Men Positive Reluctant Understanding Wise
Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Award Delight Greater Grief Life Motivation Prize Show Sorrow
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Hate Hatred Ignore One Liner Protection Safety Violent
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Custom Expediency Fear Habit Loose Nature Perfect Reveal Speak Truth
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Charm Forbidden Happy Love Motivation One Liner Personal Secret
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Bond Dominion Family Flame Love Lust One Liner Relation Thought
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Beautiful Bitter Inspirational Jest Journey Leave Life Motivational One Liner Struggle Succes Truth
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Accept Favor Hard Work Inflexible Integrity Life Luck Odious Severity Success Virtue
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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God Grace Guide Help Kindness Love Mindset Motivation One Liner Positive Return Shine Spread
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Confirm Delay False Haste Identity Inspection Invest Truth Uncertain
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Chastity Lost Modesty One Liner Proud Respect Shrink Woman Empowerment
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Assured Best Friend Brave Difficult Drama Evil History Worst Enemy
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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Empire Formation Life Peace Slatter Slaughter.Steal War
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Animal Birth Dumb Giving Liberty Nature One Liner
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Animal Donate Feeding Freedom Help Liberty Nature Poor relief
We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Corrupt Deep Desire Fortune Good Hope Injustice Law Luck Positive System

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