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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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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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TACITUS Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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TACITUS Posterity gives every man his true value.
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TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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TACITUS A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Blood is thicker than water.
TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The sun sets without thy assistance.
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TACITUS CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]
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CORNELIUS TACITUS That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil ...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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