An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSWe are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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