Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSThe love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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