Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSForethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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He 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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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