Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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