They make solitude, which they call peace.
TACITUSSuch being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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