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Deos fortioribus adesse.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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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 not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
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Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
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All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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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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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
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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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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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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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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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For I deem it to be the chief function of history to rescue merit from oblivion, and to hold up before evil words and evil deeds the terror of the reprobation of posterity.
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We are corrupted by good fortune.
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