The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSIn valor there is hope.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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 terrify lest they should fear.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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