It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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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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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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