Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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