We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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 love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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