Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSThe love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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[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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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