Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
TACITUSOld things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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