Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
TACITUSExperience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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It 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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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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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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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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