Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSEverything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The 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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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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