Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSIt is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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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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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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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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