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- There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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