It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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In valor there is hope.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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