A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
More Tacitus Quotes
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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