Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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