It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TACITUSCandor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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