Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSIt 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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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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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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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