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.
TACITUSI am my nearest neighbour.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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