It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUSSeek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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