The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSTo plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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