The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
TACITUSThe desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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