To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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