When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSZealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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