Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
TACITUSGreater things are believed of those who are absent.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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