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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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