Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
TACITUSThey terrify lest they should fear.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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