Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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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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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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