Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
TACITUSThe wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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In valor there is hope.
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