In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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