It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
From Tacitus
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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