A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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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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