Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSBodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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