The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSIt is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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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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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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