They make a desert and call it peace.
TACITUSThe persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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