[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
TACITUSThey terrify lest they should fear.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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 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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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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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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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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