The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSIn a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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He (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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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