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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More Tacitus Quotes
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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