Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSThere are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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