Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSBe assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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