All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
TACITUSCruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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