The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
TACITUSThe more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Rumor is not always wrong
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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