More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TACITUSBy general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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