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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Following Emporer Nero's command, Let the Christians be exterminated!: . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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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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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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