Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUSAll bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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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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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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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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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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