The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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