The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUSThose in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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