Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
TACITUSIn seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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