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.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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