It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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