Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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