War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
TACITUSLust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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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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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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