So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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In valor there is hope.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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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 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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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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