Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSA man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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They make solitude, which they call 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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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