The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
TACITUSIt is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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