Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSIt is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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