The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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