The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSThe 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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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