It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
TACITUSThe desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
More Tacitus Quotes
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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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.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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In valor there is hope.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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