[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSThe sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
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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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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
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