Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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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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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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