None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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