The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSIf you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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