It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUSIt belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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To 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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The gods are on the side of the stronger.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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