The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSIt is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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