The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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.
Conspicuous by his absence.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
In all things there is a law of cycles.