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.
TACITUSA desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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