The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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