The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TACITUSMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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