The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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