The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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