In valor there is hope.
TACITUSThe love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
More Tacitus Quotes
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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