No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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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.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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