None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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