The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSAn honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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