There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
TACITUSThe gods are on the side of the stronger.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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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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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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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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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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