Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSIt is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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In valor there is hope.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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