Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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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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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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