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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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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It is of eloquence as of a flame it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it and it brightens as it burns.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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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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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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