Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In valor there is hope.
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