Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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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.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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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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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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