The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSViewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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