All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUSEven honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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In valor there is hope.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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