Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
TACITUSWho the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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