No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
TACITUSIn all things there is a law of cycles.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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