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.
TACITUSEverything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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