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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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