The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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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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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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