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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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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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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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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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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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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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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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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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