It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSWhen men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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