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The images of the most illustrious families... were carried before it [the bier of Julia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that reason they shone with preeminent luster.
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He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
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Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions.
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The soldiers have the plunder of a city that is stormed, the generals of one which capitulates.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
Variant translation: when the republic was in its greatest decay laws were most numerous
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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
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Born:
58
Died:
120
(aged 62)
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.
Known for:
Annals (117 AD)
Histories
Germania
Agricola
Dialogus de oratoribus
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