The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
TACITUSNone grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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