Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSNecessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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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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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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