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Tacitus
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
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