Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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