Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TACITUSWe are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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