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

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Tacitus
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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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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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
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Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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