Tacitus Quotes About Fame
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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