Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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