The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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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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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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