Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
TACITUSHe (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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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