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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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