Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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