The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
TACITUSNeglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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