The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
TACITUSThe 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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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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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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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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