The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSThe sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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