Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
TACITUSThe love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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