The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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