Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSCrime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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