A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
TACITUSThe desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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