Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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