Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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