There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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.
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
The gods are on the side of the stronger.
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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