Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
TACITUSIt is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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