Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUSThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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