None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSHe (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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