Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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