Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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 inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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