Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TACITUSFormerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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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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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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