In all things there is a law of cycles.
TACITUSThe grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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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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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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