Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
TACITUSMiseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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