Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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In 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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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They make a desert and call it peace.
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