Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
TACITUSEven for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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