If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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