The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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