Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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