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Men Quotes by Tacitus
- In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
- Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
- 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…
- You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
- In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
- The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
- Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
- Posterity gives every man his true value.
- The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
- Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
- The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
- Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
- When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
- A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
- Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
- Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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