Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.