The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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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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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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