Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSThe sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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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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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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