The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSTo 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.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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All 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.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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