Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
TACITUSThe lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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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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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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In valor there is hope.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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