The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUSIn private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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