It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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 more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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