Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSPosterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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; 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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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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