The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSCustom adapts itself to expediency.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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