Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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