The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
TACITUS[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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