More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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