They make a desert and call it peace.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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