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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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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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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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