Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSMen are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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In valor there is hope.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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