Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSBy general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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