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Things forbidden have a secret charm.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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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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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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