All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
TACITUSIf we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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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.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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