The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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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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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 the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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