The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSSeek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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