We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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