[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSThe love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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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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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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