Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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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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