The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Rumor is not always wrong
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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