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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
Tacitus
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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