The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUSAll enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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