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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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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 wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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