Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
TACITUSNone grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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