The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSZealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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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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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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