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.
TACITUSIn a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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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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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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