Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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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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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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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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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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