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.
TACITUSThe 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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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In valor there is hope.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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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 word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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