Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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