It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
TACITUSConspicuous by his absence.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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