The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
TACITUSPerdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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One who is allowed to sin, sins less
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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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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