The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSIt is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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