The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
TACITUSIn 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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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