Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
TACITUSA bad peace is even worse than war.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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