[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSSolitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and 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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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