The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
TACITUSSecure 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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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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