In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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