We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSThey make solitude, which they call peace.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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The Romans brought devestation, but they called 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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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