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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

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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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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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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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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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