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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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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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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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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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