Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
TACITUSWho the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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