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A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. - [Self-reliance] Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state. - [Luxury] Bad beginnings, bad endings. - [Proverbs] By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities. - [Proverbs] Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. - [Proverbs] False shame only is harmful. - [Shame] Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. - [Proverbs] Great contests generally excite great animosities. - [Contention] In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. - [Treachery] My sun has not yet set for ever. - [Proverbs] No wickedness has any ground of reason. - [Wickedness] Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. - [Proverbs] Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money. - [Money : Proverbs] Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. - [Proverbs] Prosperity engenders sloth. - [Sloth] That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others. - [Proverbs] The least reliance can be placed be placed even on the most exalted fortune. - [Fortune] Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. - [Toil] When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden. - [Government] Wit is the flower of the imagination. - [Wit] Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.] - IV, II, 11 [Proverbs : Time] Evil is fittest to consort with evil. [Lat., Fere fit malum malo aptissimum.] - Annales (I, 46) [Evil] Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae metuant.] - Annales (III, 39) [Suffering] The injury done to character is greater than can be estimated. [Lat., Famae ac fidei damna majora sunt quam quae aestimari possunt.] - Annales (III, 72) [Character] Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.] - Annales (IV, 28) [Necessity] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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