By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In valor there is hope.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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