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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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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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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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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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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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