An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSThe 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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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