Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSFlattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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