Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSAn eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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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 love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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