Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSThe hatred of relatives is the most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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