Rumor is not always wrong
TACITUSIt is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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