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• They make a desert and call it peace." -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
• Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgement.
• Posterity gives every man his true value. TACITUS
• Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place.
  This old proverb makes all judgement impossible, for we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place....
• Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement.
  -- Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and questions deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
  To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passion in his craft of will....
• Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 258...