Becoming Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Men Obnoxious Ruins Work out
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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