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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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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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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
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