The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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