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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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