Tacitus quotes - page 4

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from. (Tacitus)
He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. View quote
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I am my nearest neighbour. View quote
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end. View quote
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable. View quote
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. View quote
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. View quote
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. View quote
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. View quote
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. View quote
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The worst hatred is that of relatives. (Tacitus)
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up. View quote
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More colloquially: They rob, kill and plunder and deceivingly call it "Roman rule", and where they make a desert, they call it "peace". View quote
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The younger men had been born after the victory of Actium; most even of the elder generation, during the civil wars; few indeed were left who had seen the Republic. It was thus an altered world, and of the old, unspoilt Roman character not a trace lingered. Equality was an outworn creed, and all eyes looked to the mandate of the sovereign, ... View quote
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And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt. View quote
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