Conspicuous by his absence.
TACITUSHe (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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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