In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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In valor there is hope.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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