The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSNone make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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