Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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