The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
TACITUSThe 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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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