Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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