Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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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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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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