It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSKeen at the start, but careless at the end.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSAll enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUSThe lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
TACITUSThe lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSAll those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
TACITUSOther men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
TACITUSThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSEven for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TACITUSCorruptisima republica plurimae leges.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSCrime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSFormerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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