A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
TACITUSSo as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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To 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.
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