Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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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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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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