Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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