Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUSA bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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