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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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