The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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