Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
TACITUSRumor is not always wrong
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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