Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSBodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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