Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
TACITUSWhen men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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 the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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