Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSThe Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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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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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In valor there is hope.
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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.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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