Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
TACITUSNone grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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In valor there is hope.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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