Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
TACITUSBodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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