Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
TACITUSRulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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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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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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