Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUSCorruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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