Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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