Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
TACITUSBe assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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