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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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Tacitus

Tacitus
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Born: 58
Died: 120 (aged 62)
Bio: Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.
Known for:
  1. Annals (117 AD)
  2. Histories
  3. Germania
  4. Agricola
  5. Dialogus de oratoribus
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  • desire

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