Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSWe accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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