One who is allowed to sin, sins less
TACITUSIn 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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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
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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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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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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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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