The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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