Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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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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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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