It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
TACITUSAll 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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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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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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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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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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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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