The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
TACITUSThe lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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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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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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