Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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In valor there is hope.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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