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.
TACITUSGreater things are believed of those who are absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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