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Tacitus has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and…
• The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and…
• Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
• The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and…
• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

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