Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
TACITUSPerdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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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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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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