Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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