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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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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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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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