The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSModest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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