Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSPower won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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