When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUSThe brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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