Rumor is not always wrong
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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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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In valor there is hope.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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