When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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