Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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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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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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