Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSWhatever is unknown is magnified.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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