All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
TACITUSThe desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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