The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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 lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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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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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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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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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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