[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
TACITUSCassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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