Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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