Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
TACITUSThey terrify lest they should fear.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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