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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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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