The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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All 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.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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