They make a desert and call it peace.
TACITUSWhen a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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