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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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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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