When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSEven the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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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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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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