The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
TACITUSFlatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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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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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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