The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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