The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TACITUSBenefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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