A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
TACITUSIndeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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