The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSBodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSNature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
TACITUSPosterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUSThings forbidden have a secret charm.
TACITUSEven the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSThe principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
TACITUSIn all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TACITUSAll those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUSPeople flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSChristianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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