Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
TACITUSIt is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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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 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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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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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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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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