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.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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