Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSIn a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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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 love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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