Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
TACITUSThe injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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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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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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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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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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