An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
TACITUSIn seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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