The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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