None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSFear 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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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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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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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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