In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
TACITUSTo 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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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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