Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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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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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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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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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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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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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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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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