Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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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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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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