“Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions”

—  Tacitus , book Annals

Book XV, 53
Annals (117)

Original

cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 27, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions" by Tacitus?
Tacitus photo
Tacitus 42
Roman senator and historian 54–120

Related quotes

Marcus Tullius Cicero photo

“For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?”
Quid enim foedius auaritia, quid immanius libidine, quid contemptius timiditate, quid abiectius tarditate et stultitia dici potest?

Book I, section 51; (Translation by C.D. Yonge) http://books.google.com/books?id=AdAIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22For+what+is+there+more+hideous+than+avarice+more+brutal+than+lust+more+contemptible+than+cowardice+more+base+than+stupidity+and%22&pg=PA420#v=onepage
De Legibus (On the Laws)

Rudolph Rummel photo
Abbie Hoffman photo

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning.”

Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989) American political and social activist

Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 297.
Context: There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

William Ewart Gladstone photo
Stefan Zweig photo
William Vaughn Moody photo

“Passion is power,
And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare
Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.”

William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) United States dramatist and poet

The Masque of Judgment (1900), Act III, Sc. 2.

Stefan Zweig photo
Lewis Morris (poet) photo

“The passionate love of Right, the burning hate of Wrong.”

Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language

The Diamond Jubilee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

John Dryden photo

“All empire is no more than power in trust.”

Pt. I line 411.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

Related topics