To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved 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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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