There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
TACITUSEven the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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