The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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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 unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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