They make solitude, which they call peace.
TACITUSEven honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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