There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSThe most seditious is the most cowardly.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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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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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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In valor there is hope.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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