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.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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 gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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