The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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