The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
TACITUSAll things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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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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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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In valor there is hope.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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