Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
TACITUSAn eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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