It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSFlatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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