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Tacitus Quotes
	Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. Tacitus Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Historian Quotes Category: Roman Historian Quotes Year of Birth: 55 Year of Death: 120 Nationality: Roman Amazon: Tacitus on Amazon	Related Authors: Christopher Lasch Edward Gibbon Hannah Arendt Henry B. Adams Herodotus Sallust Stephen Ambrose Will Durant
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Quote Keywords: Bear, Difficult, Less, Measure, Misfortune, Pleasure, Prosperity, Remain, Than, Touchstone, Uncorrupted, Virtue	Dictionary Links: Bear, Difficult, Less, Measure, Misfortune, Pleasure, Prosperity, Remain, Than, Touchstone, Virtue

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