Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSNo one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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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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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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