The most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUS
TACITUS
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
TacitusTacitus It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TacitusTacitus The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
TacitusTacitus By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
TacitusTacitus It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
TacitusTacitus Rumor is not always wrong
TacitusTacitus All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
TacitusTacitus The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
TacitusTacitus Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
TacitusTacitus Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TacitusTacitus The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TacitusTacitus Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TacitusTacitus Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
TacitusTacitus The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TacitusTacitus Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
TacitusTacitus I am my nearest neighbour.
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Anne LamottAnne Lamott As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.
Georg CantorGeorg Cantor we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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