In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSWhen men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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