Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSThe persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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