Quotes by Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less diff >>

The more corrupt the state, the more laws. >>

In all things there is a law of cycles. >>

Quotations about Fame

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because >>

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. >>

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we >>

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius