Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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 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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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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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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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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