Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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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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