The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TACITUSThe hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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