An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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He (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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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