An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
TACITUSKindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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