[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSThe changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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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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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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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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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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