The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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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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