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Viginti clarissimarum familiarum imagines antelatae sunt, Manlii, Quinctii aliaque eiusdem nobilitatis nomina. sed praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantur.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Ne Tiberium quidem caritate aut rei publicae cura successorem adscitum, sed quoniam adrogantiam saevitiamque eius introspexerit, comparatione deterrima sibi gloriam quaesivisse.
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Deos fortioribus adesse.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.
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It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
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All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, 'with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising'.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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