None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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