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Things forbidden have a secret charm.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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