The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSReckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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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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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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