In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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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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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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