The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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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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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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