Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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