It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUS[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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