Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUSEven for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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