To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
TACITUSThere can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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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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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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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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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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