Tacitus Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Men, Lust

• The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Desire, Lasts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan

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

  Tacitus

  Wise, Weakness, Lasts

  "Annales" (AD 117), IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 256-259), 1922.

• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

  Tacitus

  Men, Lasts, Fame

• Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
  [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

  Tacitus

  Character, Fame, Modest

• Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

  Tacitus

  Winning, Benches, Opponents

  Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb (1911). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps”

• Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

  Tacitus

  Men, Fame, Indolence

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, XVI. 18, AD 117.

• The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

  Tacitus

  Men, Fame, Reluctant

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