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.
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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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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