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.
TACITUSCrime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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In valor there is hope.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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