All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUSRumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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