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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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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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