It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSIn the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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