The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSSo as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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