To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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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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