A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
TACITUSAbuse 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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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