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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
[ Health ]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
[ Cities and City Life ]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
[ Moderation ]
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
[ Expediency ]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
[ Fear ]
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Forbidden things have a secret charm.
[ Scarcity ]
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
[ Absence ]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
[ Courage ]
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
[ Cycles ]
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It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
[ Hatred ]
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
[ Misfortunes ]
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
[ Character ]
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Posterity gives every man his true value.
[ Posterity ]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
[ Past ]
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
[ Guilt ]
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So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
[ Soldier ]
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
[ Security ]
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
[ Family ]
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
[ Fame ]
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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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They make a wilderness and call it peace.
[ Peace ]
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
[ Opinions ]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
[ Charm ]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
[ Inheritance ]
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
[ Valor ]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
[ Modesty ]
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