When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSIn stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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Rumor is not always wrong
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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