Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
TACITUSAbuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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