It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TACITUSThe hatred of relatives is the most violent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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