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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
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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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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Rumor does not always err it sometimes even elects a man.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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