More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSFlatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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 a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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