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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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