The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
TACITUSNo one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Whatever is unknown is magnified.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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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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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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In valor there is hope.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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