The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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