It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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