We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
TACITUSHe 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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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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