Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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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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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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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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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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