All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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