Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
TACITUSThe sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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 shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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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