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.
TACITUSThe powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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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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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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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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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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