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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.


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HAROLD S. GENEEN It is much more difficult to measure potential than performance.
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
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HAROLD S. GENEEN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
G. K. CHESTERTON Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
UNKNOWN Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
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FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BUDDHA Less is more.
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DEYTH BANGER It is a lie.
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TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Blood is thicker than water.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The sun sets without thy assistance.
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TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
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TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
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CORNELIUS TACITUS No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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CORNELIUS TACITUS It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
CORNELIUS TACITUS There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
CORNELIUS TACITUS That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
CORNELIUS TACITUS Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The illicit has an added charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS There will be vice as long as there are men
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