Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
TACITUSLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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