Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSForethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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