Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSIn seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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