In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
More Tacitus Quotes
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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