Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSIn 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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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