Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
TACITUSIt is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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