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Greater things are believed of those who are absent. (Tacitus)
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. View quote
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. View quote
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. View quote
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. View quote
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. View quote
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. View quote
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. View quote
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. View quote
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. View quote
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. (Tacitus)
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. View quote
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. View quote
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. View quote
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. View quote
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Custom adapts itself to expediency. View quote
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Think of your forefathers and posterity. View quote
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Thou wast indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendour of thy life, but in the opportune moment of thy death. View quote
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However the marriage is there severe. View quote
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...good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere. View quote
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There will be vices as long as there are men. (Tacitus)
The histories of Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, and Nero, while they were in power, were falsified through terror, and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred. Hence my purpose is to relate a few facts about Augustus - more particularly his last acts, then the reign of Tiberius, and all which follows, without either bitterness or partiality, from any motives to which I am far removed. View quote
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Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions. View quote
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. View quote
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There is a division of duties between the army and its generals. Eagerness for battle becomes the soldiers, but generals serve the cause by forethought, by counsel, by delay oftener than by temerity. As I promoted your victory to the utmost of my power by my sword and by my personal exertions, so now I must help you by prudence and by counsel, the qualities which belong peculiarly to a general. View quote
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