The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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