It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
TACITUSAll enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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