Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSThose in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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