When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]


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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
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The illicit has an added charm
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There will be vice as long as there are men
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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They make a wilderness and call it peace.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Posterity gives every man his true value.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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There will be vice as long as there are men.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
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Things orbidden have a secret charm.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Forbidden things have a secret charm.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
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