The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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