Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSAll enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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