All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUSWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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