It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUSTruth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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In valor there is hope.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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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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They terrify lest they should fear.
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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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