All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TACITUSIt is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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