The worst hatred is that of relatives.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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