The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSAdversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom 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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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