An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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