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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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