Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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More Tacitus Quotes
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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