Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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