It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
TACITUSWhen the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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