Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSPower acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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