The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
TACITUSEvery recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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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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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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