It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUSThe lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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