Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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