Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSThe repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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