Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSHe (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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