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.
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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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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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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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