The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
More Tacitus Quotes
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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