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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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