[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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