Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSThose in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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