We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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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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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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