he would yet do full well to wait for that wisest of all counsellors, Time. - Plutarch

Nothing is so naturally haughty and harsh and hard to govern as a man who has acquired a reputation for success.

In a harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days