The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSThe unknown always passes for the marvellous.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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