Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSCandor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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 Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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