Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSLegions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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 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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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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