Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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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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