Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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