People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In valor there is hope.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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