It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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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 desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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