We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSThe lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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