Casts Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casts Desire Desire Glory Fame Glory Glory Infirmity Infirmity Infirmity Cast Lasts Wisdom Wise
Glory is a often praised thing because of the way it makes people feel, but Glory is for the weak hearted and actions based… — Kevan Langley Copy Share Image
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how… — Ali ibn Abi Talib 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
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside. — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
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