A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUSWhen men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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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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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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