It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
TACITUSIt is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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In valor there is hope.
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