The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSOne who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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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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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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